Anala Beevers of New Orleans is just a precocious four years old, but at just 4 months of age she was learning the alphabet, counting in Spanish at eighteen months, knows the location and capital of all 50 US states and many of the world's nations and can identify the planets and dinosaurs.Hmm, that makes her way smarter than 47 US senators, 234 US congressmen, 4 US Supreme Court justices and her state's current governor.
Anala also has an invitation to join MENSA, the international organization for super smart individuals that requires a comprehensive standardized Q test and a 130 or better IQ to get in. .
MENSA menbership is much older than Anala and claims people with intelligence that are in the top 2% of the world's population. Anala is in the top 1% with a 145 IQ. I'm a slacker compared to her, because the last time I took one a few years ago I tested out at a mere 118.
But raising an exceptionally smart child can be a challenge. Her mom Sabrina says that Anala is 'always correcting their grammar' and dad Landon says 'she keeps us on our toes'.
At a time when African-Americans are once again getting bashed in the
conservamedia, this child genius is a breath of fresh air in a stale
racist conversation of negativity about us as African-descended people.And sadly, note in the various articles about her on the Net the racist comments in the threads .
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She's aware of her intellectual gifts and when you ask her she wants to be when she grows up, her answer is a nurse. While the nursing profession may be happy to hear that, I think as she gets older that career choice might be subject to amendment.
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